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Bodega Y Tapas
Bodega Y Tapas promises to deliver you a muy delicioso meal with its brand new menu. The efforts of Madrid-born Head Chef Roberto Fernandez, who spent three months creating this new tapas menu, pay off with an exceptional variety of traditional tapas. The slow-cooked beef tripe stew—Chef Fernandez’s personal favourite—chalks up points in our book for its tender texture and toothsome flavours. Ideal for nibbling among friends, order the stuffed piquillos peppers with seafood, codfish croquettes laced with coriander sauce and the pulpo a feira—a traditional Spanish octopus dish deftly seasoned with Pimenton, salt and extra olive virgin oil.

442 Orchard Road
#01-29 Orchard Hotel
Tel: 6735 3476
www.esmirada.com

AFC Kitchen Studio
The Asian Food Channel (AFC) has taken a giant leap from showcasing Asian epicurean treats on their television network to bringing it right to the heart of Orchard Road. The AFC Kitchen Studio is Singapore’s very first built-in concept showroom, featuring a gleaming range of built-in kitchen home electronics and appliances by LG Built-in Appliance Asia. A host of culinary adventures are offered at the studio: culinary master classes, demonstrations by stellar celebrity chefs, and a retail store with the hottest culinary products and kitchen gadgets. An in-house café, decked in cheery shades of lemon yellow and lime green, is the perfect place for an afternoon tete a tete with a cuppa, cakes and pastries.

Orchard Central #07-02
Opening hours: Daily, 11am – 11pm

Charly T’s Food Journeys
Who is Charly T? His identity is shrouded in mystery, but we’re quite certain that the man is part-traveller, part-gastronome. This casual eatery, located beside The Cathay, boasts a one-of-a-kind concept in Singapore. The menu is a broad compilation of Charly T’s favourite home-style recipes amassed from his equally extensive travels around the world. Having mastered the art of preparing rotisserie-style chicken in Hamburg, Charly T’s Famous Rotisserie Chicken is moist, succulent and packed with finger-lickin’ flavour. While you may not require any condiments to flavour the dishes, Charly T, has concocted a range of “secret sauces” that are winners in their own right. We particularly love the creamy roasted sesame and the ginger & lemon Japanese soy sauces.

20 Handy Road
Level 1 NOMU Building
Tel: 6336 7789
www.charlyts.com

Gattopardo
Fans of Italian cuisine have much to anticipate from the newest addition to the Garibaldi group. Come mid-January, Gattopardo—Italian for “leopard”—will be opening amid the lush greenery of Fort Canning Park. Armed with 18 rich years of culinary experience in fine dining restaurants all over Italy, Switzerland and Germany, Chef Lino Sauro will be bringing his signature style of light and refreshing South Italian cuisine to the table. A firm advocate of using the freshest seafood, vegetables and seasonal produce in his cuisine, Chef Lino will prove that handmade Italian pastas, authentic wood-fired pizzas and his seafood creations can be healthy and at the same time, mouthwateringly delicious.

The Legends @ Fort Canning Park